Knowledge And Wisdom

Since perhaps the advent of civilizations, most people have often been curious or rather wondering about the definition or meaning of the two terms and then struggle to discover the difference between the them.

However, it seems impossible, in spite of all sorts of philosophical debates (and billions of articles, journals, and books being printed and read worldwide) to define the two concepts in absolute terms, but we can try to have as much clear an idea of them as possible.

Here we go.

Knowledge

Although frequently used in everyday conversations and debates, it is very difficult to precisely define the term “knowledge” in view of a paradoxical statement attributed to Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher born in c.470 bce and also credited as the founder of Western philosophy) that is being reproduced below:

“All I Know Is That I Know Nothing.” The statement is believed to have been derived from Plato’s account of the ancient Greek philosopher.

It is paradoxical in a sense that even discovering that “one knows nothing” is a “knowledge” of one’s ignorance. In other words how one can say the “one knows nothing” when one “knows one thing” that one is ignorant. More simply, since your are aware of your ignorance, you no longer remain ignorant at all. On the other hand, as Confucius famously said, “real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Moreover, how can we “know” (or claim to) that we “know” nothing or anything because there…